Doctor Who - Discussion Thread II

I'm not actually craving Doctor Who at all... I might start craving it a bit when we've got a date, and it's a bit closer to that date, but I'm really not fussed right now.

Has anyone here been to the Dr Who experience? How was it?




And yes, I completely agree with this. A bit apathetic about the news at the moment.

(Though still very excited for Sherlock)

Has anyone here been to the Dr Who experience? How was it?

With me, I was much more excited about Doctor Who when David Tennant was the Doctor, as I prefer him much more than Matt Smith's version as he had much more energy and was much cooler.

Yes. Pretty good. More aimed at children, but still good. When a Weeping Angel suddenly appears silently out of the dark it takes a good few moments for your head to go "oh, hang on, that's a stage prop".

Okay then. I will plan to see it this summer.

I was debating whether I should as it's a bit off the centre of London, and I wasn't sure if it was a bit gimmicky... Thanks for your help!

Oh, hang on, you're talking about something else... I thought you meant the live interactive play that's on in Manchester right now, not some glorified museum.

Thats because they knew kids had short attention spans so needed stuff to be in your face.

I liked DT's energy at first then it just felt repetitive as he just kept shouting at someone or something or running

DT also felt like that annoying uncle who was trying to be cool with kids so hammed it up and was embaressing.

No, I was speaking of the glorified museum at the Olympia. What were you talking about?

Re the wait for the rest of this series of Doctor Who. If there wasn't a break we'd only have 2 more episodes left to watch at this stage. But instead, we now have 6 more to look forward too.

I'm enjoying the Matt Smith episodes quite a lot. I feel he's adding something to it like all the previous actors have done. Tennant was far more charismatic but I was frustrated throughout his time because of everyone falling in love with him (barring Donna).

I like this whole self discovery path that Matt Smith's doctor is going down, and that's including finding himself with the whole River situation.

Clearly River/ Melody will be someone he will be protective and caring of throughout her entire life, what with her being Amy's daughter and him knowing who she will turn into.

I had a point to make there but I got distracted and now I can't remember...

What do you mean we would only have 2 more episodes, we'd have 6 anyway cos it's normally a 13-episode series, and the first half was 7. I do think Matt Smith is a good Doctor, but I prefer Tennant more. It is true that it got frustrating that everyone fancied him, and that's why I loved Series 4, due to the matey relationship he had with Donna (I loved the whole banter between them and Donna constantly calling him skinny and others).

I agree that as the Doctor now knows about River/Melody and that he knows who she is and will be that he will protect her and that's probably why he'll be there for her when she's young and so that would start their whole relationship (whether it be platonic, or a romantic one) so it's kind of a paradox isn't it?

I meant that if there wasn't a hiatus we'd only have 2 more episodes left at this point in time because it won't have stopped airing.

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like John Barrowman's face has been photoshopped onto his own body at a really weird angle?

This week's Radio Times cover: http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt32/doctorwhonews/Products/RadioTimes/Torchwood/rt_2011_07_09.jpg

Now... I'm used to seeing John Barrowman's airbrushed/heavily plastered face... but Eve doesn't look like herself :| It's partly the hair (her forehead looks ridiculous in the picture) and partly the airbrushed-smooth skin... but yeah... ridiculous.